Luck is what we call success when we can't see all of the factors that go into it; it looks sudden and random. Unpredictable, uncontrollable things influence us in predictable, self-defeating ways that often escape our awareness. Can You Learn to Be Lucky? is a guide on how to improve your life despite the world's randomness.
Luck is code for the invisible forces that guide our lives, like privilege, faith, and optimism. I wanted to read a book that looked at these factors from an objective lens and couldn't find it—so I wrote it.
Is success the product of these internal traits—or are our fates just at the whim of the cosmos? What links these two things?
